About players and data

We take facts about players from open databases and encyclopedias. Thanks to everyone who writes them.

We have taken and adapted data from Wikipedia, Liquipedia and Leaguepedia (selected, shortened, translated). The authors are the contributors to those projects. If we ever publish a derived dataset from them, it will be under the same CC BY-SA licence.

Only public facts about their sporting career: name, sport, position or role, clubs and teams, nationality, birth year, statistics and achievements. For the character’s look, also gender and hair and eye colour from Wikidata.

We don’t use photos, private life, health or family.

Every player appears in the game as a drawn goat character. It’s our own drawing from the GOAT builder, not a photo, not a likeness and not an AI-generated image. A character may have a few features that suit the player (hairstyle, beard, fur colour) so that he can be guessed. We never draw tattoos, logos, shirt numbers or sponsors.

A character does not mean that the player supports the game or works with us. Players, their clubs and leagues have nothing to do with GoatGuess. We don’t sell player characters or use them in advertising.

• From the public facts above, the Claude model by Anthropic suggests a look in fixed categories (e.g. “short dark hair, beard”). It gets text only, no photos.
• When the model isn’t sure, we leave the feature out and the character stays at the default.
• We take gender only from Wikidata and never guess it.
• A human checks every character before it’s published.
• No data about GoatGuess users is sent anywhere in the process. See the privacy policy.

If you are a player who appears in the game, or their representative (agent, club, parent), and you don’t want to be here, write to takedown@goatguess.com. Include:

• the player’s name and sport,
• what you want: just a neutral character without the player’s features, or complete removal from all games and cards,
• for a representative, briefly whom you represent and why.

We reply within 72 hours. We switch the character to a neutral one as soon as the request is verified. If you want complete removal, we also remove the player from quizzes, cards and clues. We keep only a short record (who, when, what) so we don’t add the player again by mistake.

Under the law (Art. 21 GDPR) you also have the right to object to the processing of data about you. We treat a request sent to takedown@goatguess.com as an objection too.

Report a wrong club, year or position via Report a bug / idea at the bottom of the page or at gusta@goatguess.com. We’ll fix it.

GoatGuess is not affiliated with FIFA, UEFA, the NHL, the NBA, the IIHF or any club or league. Their names and trademarks belong to their owners.

GoatGuess was created under Riot Games' "Legal Jibber Jabber" policy using assets owned by Riot Games. Riot Games does not endorse or sponsor this project.

League of Legends is a trademark of Riot Games, Inc. Counter-Strike 2 is a trademark of Valve Corporation. GoatGuess is not affiliated with Valve or Riot Games and does not use their graphics, logos or game content.